..In this report, we describe a high prevalence of Proteus mirabilis, a Gram-negative bacillus, in skin abscesses of the axilla, which has potential implications for selection of antimicrobial therapy...

..The objective of this study was to determine whether children who are at risk for maltreatment have characteristic patterns of health care use before their diagnosis of abuse or neglect that distinguish them from other children...

Reliability of clinical examinations for pediatric skin and soft-tissue infections

Rakesh D MistryDepartment of Pediatrics and the Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USAAcad Emerg Med 17:187-93. 2010

..Blood cultures are often obtained as part of the evaluation of children with pneumonia. There are few data regarding the risk of bacteremia with pneumonia in children since introduction of the Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine...

Joel A FeinDivision of Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Department of Pediatrics, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAPediatr Emerg Care 20:224-7. 2004

..Investigate health care providers' perceived advantages and disadvantages of family member presence (FMP) for a wide spectrum of procedures in the pediatric emergency department...

Risk factors for emesis after therapeutic use of activated charcoal in acutely poisoned children

..Our aim was to describe this practice with regard to timing, route of administration, use of flavoring agents, and occurrence of adverse events other than vomiting...

Observation unit experience for pediatric poison exposures

Diane P CalelloSection of Medical Toxicology, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 0019, USAJ Med Toxicol 5:15-9. 2009

..Short-Stay Emergency Department Observation Units (OU) are an alternative to hospitalization, but data on OU care of pediatric poisoning exposures is limited. We report the experience of a pediatric OU with this population...

..Diagnosis information from existing data sources is used commonly for epidemiologic, administrative, and research purposes. The quality of such data for emergency department (ED) visits is unknown...

Epidemiology of psychiatric-related visits to emergency departments in a multicenter collaborative research pediatric network

..To develop a set of chief complaint groupings for pediatric emergency department (ED) visits that is comprehensive, parsimonious, clinically sensible, and evidence-based...

A new diagnosis grouping system for child emergency department visits

Evaline A AlessandriniDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USAAcad Emerg Med 17:204-13. 2010

..The second objective was to assess the construct validity of the DGS by examining variation in the frequency of targeted groups of diagnoses within the concepts of season, age, sex, and hospital type...

Child bicyclist injuries: are we obtaining enough information in the emergency department chart?

E K MollDepartment of Pediatrics, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 19104, USAInj Prev 8:165-9. 2002

..The purpose of this study was to assess the range of information relevant to bicyclist injury research that is available on routinely completed emergency department medical records...